Dermot Curtis
| Dermot Curtis | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Dermot Patrick Curtis | |
| birthday | August 26, 1932 | |
| place of birth | Dublin , Ireland | |
| date of death | November 1, 2008 | |
| Place of death | Exeter , England | |
| position | Center Forward | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1952-1956 | Shelbourne FC | |
| 1956-1958 | Bristol City | 26 (16) |
| 1958-1963 | Ipswich Town | 41 (17) |
| 1963-1966 | Exeter City | 91 (23) |
| 1966-1967 | Torquay United | 12 ( 1) |
| 1967-1969 | Exeter City | 66 (10) |
| AFC Bideford | ||
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1956-1963 | Ireland | 17 ( 8) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Dermot Patrick Curtis (born August 26, 1932 in Dublin , † November 1, 2008 in Exeter ) was an Irish football player . The center forward was part of Ipswich Town , which rose to the first division in the early 1960s and surprisingly won the championship the following year under the later world champion coach Alf Ramsey . However, he was mostly only a substitute behind the "seeded" Ray Crawford and Ted Phillips .
Athletic career
Born in the Irish capital, Curtis grew up with seven siblings in the Drimnagh district . Less than ten kilometers away was Shelbourne Park , and as a boy he used to cycle there twice a week for football training. He then worked out his first sporting merits at his hometown club Shelbourne FC at the beginning of the 1950s and he harmonized well with his strike partner Rory Dwyer in the 1954/55 season and the two scored 35 goals together. Curtis was considered to be very strong at the head, although this was extraordinary because he was comparatively small for a center forward. He catapulted himself into the international focus for the first time in 1956, when he made a name for himself with good performances in the Irish national team . The 3-0 win against the reigning world champion from Germany at the end of November 1956 was particularly noteworthy. In the following month he dared to step into English professional football and joined the second division Bristol City .
In Bristol, he scored 16 goals in 26 league games in a year and a half and then moved on to league rivals Ipswich Town in September 1958. There he was part of a successful team that first rose to the top division in 1961 and surprisingly won the English championship the following year, but he made only marginal contributions to winning the title. He was always in the shadow of the two goalscorers Ray Crawford and Ted Phillips, which is why coach Alf Ramsey only used him in four league games in the championship season 1961/62 - too seldom to receive an official medal. Regardless, Curtis' time in Ipswich was not without success, as he scored 17 goals in 41 league games.
In the summer of 1963, Les Kerslake convinced him as the club director of the lower class Exeter City to move to the English southwest. Curtis spent a total of five seasons in Exeter and was an undisputed regular player there - he was also the first national player in Exeter's ranks. The engagement was only interrupted in the season 1966/67 when he played for Torquay United for a year . Two years after his return, he then ended his active career with the amateur club AFC Bideford . He then kept his residence in Exeter and died there in early November 2008 after a long illness.
Web links
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
- Dermot Curtis in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Dermot Curtis" (The Independent)
- ^ "Dermot Curtis" (Family Announcements)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curtis, Dermot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curtis, Dermot Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 2008 |
| Place of death | Exeter |